Re: PC very sluggish after installing new hard drive

What are your anti-virus and anti-spyware arrangements?

How much RAM memory?Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task
Manager and click the Performance Tab. What is the Total,
the Commit Charge and the Peak?

What is your CPU processor speed? Right click on your My
Computer icon on your Desktop and select Properties to get
this information and the amount of RAM memory.

How large is your hard disk and how much free disk space? In
Windows Explorer right click on your C drive and select
Properties. Is the hard disk formatted as fat32 or NTFS?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England

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"Uncle Kenny" <UncleKenny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:BC03D2C0-61D0-4D60-858D-1DA082A5B7C7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Thanks all for your comments - a) the new drive is the same size - 40 GB;
> b)
> I had already done disk cleanup, & just completed disk defrag. (though I
> can't see why a new drive would need it); c) I don't know how to check
> bios
> for correct speed; and d) also don't know how to check if using DMA on all
> drives.
> So far, nothing's changed. Additional help would be appreciated.
> Kenny
> kennylgray@xxxxxxxxx
>
> "Uncle Kenny" wrote:
>
>> I have a Compaq Presario 5000 & after four years my hard drive took a
>> dive. I
>> installed a new Seagate hard drive & jumped the hoops of Quick Restore,
>> reloading XP, getting all the updates up to date again - but my computer
>> is
>> running slower than it did before the big crash. I have DSL and pages are
>> loading at really slow dial-up speeds. I'm at a loss.
>> Kenny
>> kennylgray@xxxxxxxxx


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